Hardwood is an excellent choice for formal living dining areas. If you’re planning on hardwood and live on a concrete sub-floor your best bet is an engineered hardwood. Engineered hardwood flooring has a hardwood wear layer, in this case Cherry, laminated to a plywood core. This type of construction makes the flooring very stable and less susceptible to shrinking and expanding due to environmental conditions. Engineered hardwood is part of the hardwood flooring category, not the laminated flooring category.